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MacKenzie Scott gave California public education $461 million—and let the recipients decide how to spend every dollar

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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott had her banner giving year in 2025, with an eye-popping total of $7 billion in donations across a variety of organizations. In all, she’s donated more than $26 billion in just the past few years.

But one of her main efforts has gone toward higher education, whether to public institutions that lost funding during the Trump administration or to historically Black colleges and universities.

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